“It’s not destroying. It’s creating something new”. https://youtu.be/0m3cPEbwwhg Figure 1 – film trailer Annihilation, by definition, is something “Completely destroyed; nothingness, non-existence”, Yet Alex Garland’s 2018 film entirely rethinks what…
read more“There’s just something… ineffable. Profoundly, unutterably, unfixably wrong here.”
read moreThat fear of death. Do you feel it? Are you scared now?– Sonnie Content warning: sexual assault, female violence, abuse Netflix’s animated anthology, Love Death & Robots, first aired in 2019, enticing…
read more“Like World War fucking IV.” Figure 1: Mason receives a warning from the rats The Love, Death and Robots’ episode, Mason’s Rats, centres around conflict regarding control and the co-existence of humans and animals,…
read moreSusanne Bier’s Bird Box follows Malorie Hayes as she navigates the events and aftermath of an outbreak of creatures, which seem to take on the form of a person’s worst…
read moreThere are two kinds of pigs that make an appearance in Okja; genetically modified super-pigs and greedy, corporate capitalist pigs. The slaughterhouse scene forces the viewer to dispel any false…
read morehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbIxYm3mKzI “You’re going to die! You’re going to die!” Through a plot that follows the fight for a response to humanity’s impending doom when a comet is discovered to be…
read moreInspired by true events, Penguin Bloom tells the story of Sam Bloom, a mother and wife who became paralysed after a serious accident. As she struggles through a difficult recovery,…
read morehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNMhRiyraxE&ab_channel=WatchTheFrame%3F Of course, it is odd to gaze from social isolation into absolute claustrophobia while still in a lockdown: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s twisted dystopian Sci-Fi thriller El Hoyo (in international release…
read moreIn the movie snails are a metaphor for human cruelty and cannibalism. In the twisted dystopian science fiction movie “The Platform,” inmates of a vertically piled up prison, with two…
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